BIDS

BIDS is a Data skill for Claude Code, published by K-Dense-AI in scientific-agent-skills.

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Install BIDS

Copy BIDS into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills/tree/main/skills/bids ~/.claude/skills/bids

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/bids/SKILL.md in K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/bids
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Data — 668 skills

What BIDS does

BIDS helps organize, query, validate, and convert neuroscience datasets (MRI, EEG, MEG, PET, microscopy, behavioral) into the Brain Imaging Data Structure standard. Use it when preparing or sharing datasets for repositories like OpenNeuro and DANDI.

BIDS is cataloged under Data on DirSkills. BIDS comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai-scientist, bioinformatics, chemoinformatics and claude.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS)

Overview

The Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) is a community standard for organizing and describing neuroscience and biomedical research datasets. It defines a consistent file naming convention, directory hierarchy, and metadata schema so that datasets are immediately understandable by humans and software tools alike. BIDS is governed by the BIDS Specification (currently v1.11.x) and is maintained by the community via the BIDS-Standard GitHub organization.

While BIDS originated for MRI, it has grown well beyond neuroimaging. The specification now covers 11 modalities spanning imaging, electrophysiology, and behavioral data:

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about BIDS

What else does K-Dense-AI publish alongside BIDS?
BIDS is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Adaptyv Bio Foundry API, Aeon and Analytical Method Validation. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way BIDS does, and is maintained by K-Dense-AI in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills page.
How does BIDS compare to other Data skills?
BIDS ranks #39 by stars among the 668 Data skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark Methodology, Jupyter Notebook and Solana. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of BIDS against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.